We’re sober now, and we all have families and obligations of being senior citizens. Oh, that’s hard to say. We have grown-up responsibilities. We used to all live in the same car.
I think that after a year of Portishead I’ve become a little more sober.
I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.
People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent.
I think a lot of people are scared, and I know I was scared to get sober, at least using this as an excuse; ‘I don’t want to be one of those sober people.’ And I don’t think you have to be. I think you can be one of those people who happens to be sober.
I’m sober now and very happy.
I’m sober now, but I was partying a lot. Part of it was because gay bars felt like safe spaces… a place where you feel safe and comfortable in your own skin.
After a hellish decade, my son got and stayed sober.
At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.
I’m clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They’re like, ‘Oh, her dramatic weight gain.’ So, stop making fun of me!
Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.
I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing.
I like getting blotto at parties but I also like being sober and I hate the hangover.
I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: ‘Wait a minute – if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?’ And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.
I can’t stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it’s the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.
If you like to read, sometimes it’s interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet… Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.
Girls like me more sober.
I was totally sober in college and really, really focused. I just took the time when other people might be partying and just made music and played at the party instead.
A gentleman is never rude except on purpose – I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.
When I got sober, I really felt like there was something that was missing from my life, Buddhism is something that I practice.
I had two experiences. I had a wonderful experience in rehab, and I had a terrible experience in rehab. But, to be honest, in the end, it wasn’t rehab that got me sober. It was just finally surrendering and saying, ‘I don’t want to do this anymore. I can’t do this anymore. Somebody help me.’
After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.
When you first get sober, you feel like a superhero. You feel real emotion because you’ve been suppressing it forever. It’s so much easier to navigate what’s important.
When I got sober and started working out, I fell into that trap of working out too much. I know a lot of guys can relate to that – if you don’t get that runner’s high every day, you feel like, ‘Oh my God, I’m losing it.’
I never drink while I’m working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
I really enjoyed playing drums on ‘Born Again.’ It was a good feeling about being alive. There was a good energy there about being sober.
Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.
When I finally got sober, I moved towards what I might have been if I hadn’t been destroying myself when I was young.
I used to say, if Jim were alive today he’d never be clean and sober but I’m changing that answer because Eminem – angry, creative, just like Jim; a real talent – and Clapton, of course. It’s a different time so he would have learned something, I think, but I don’t protect what he did.
At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.
When I decided to get sober, there were a lot of chemical imbalances that came along with that, physically as well as mentally.
I got sober because I was worried I was going to die next year.
All the mistakes I’ve ever made in my life have been when I’ve been drunk. I haven’t made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.
Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
I have the obsessiveness of someone who’s a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.
Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
I went into rehab December 14th, 1996, and got out eight months later? Then I went into a sober living place where I stayed for three months. I’ve been clean for a good year and a half.
I’ve written songs sober and I’ve written songs high.
I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark’s happier. I’m sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I’ve offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness.
I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.
I think sober is the new black. That’s the cool thing now. I’m trying to make it the cool thing.
I think that after a year of Portishead I’ve become a little more sober.
I’ve been sober now for a couple of years and I’m taking my sobriety very seriously – one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.
Yoga is how I got sober.
I was 14 years old when my dad went into rehab, and he stayed there for a long time – I don’t know, 10 or 12 years maybe. He first was there as a resident, as someone trying to get sober, and it took a long time; and then he stayed on helping people get their GED.
Every relapse is dangerous, but often it takes multiple relapses before someone finally gets sober for good.
I think the hardest part for musicians is what a wide gulf of time there is between when you decide to sober up and when you have the ability to navigate being social and having relationships and being in a band and having friends while sober.
You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.
What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.
I found my feet in my 40s: got divorced at 40, two years of drinking, and then, at 42, I became sober. My 30s were the most boring phase.
At the beginning of me getting out of rehab and thinking about going back to work, I was scared because I didn’t know if I could do this clean and sober.
Sober up, and you see and hear everything you’d been able to avoid hearing before.
At the end of the day, you have to admit that it’s just not cricket anymore; it is a multi-billion-dollar entertainment industry, that has to be viewed in a correct and sober perspective.
I was sober for, like, a year and a half, and I was 25, and I actually did have a manic episode, and I was diagnosed as bipolar.
Being sober and clear-eyed changes everything.
Being in recovery for a lot of years now, I’ve worked with a lot of people who’ve gotten sober and sat with a lot of folks who are suffering. Bearing witness is a really underrated thing; it’s a big damn deal.
However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
It is time for Iran and other stakeholders to begin to address the causes of tension in the wider Persian Gulf region. We need a sober assessment of the complex and intertwined realities here and consistent policies to deal with them. The fight against terror is a case in point.
Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.
‘My country, right or wrong’ is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ‘My mother, drunk or sober.’
